Most beautiful Cichlid thread
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I have found it hard to find a more beautiful cichild than a female festae in her full colors.
Since I have not been able to find a true festae (only uros) here is a picture of Mojos beautiful fish
Full copyright credits to Mo Devlin and his site aquamojo.com
Since I have not been able to find a true festae (only uros) here is a picture of Mojos beautiful fish
Full copyright credits to Mo Devlin and his site aquamojo.com
I like the discus, but don't have any....yet...lol....
But for a fish I do have...I'd have to say german blue rams....
This is my male....very pretty fish !
But for a fish I do have...I'd have to say german blue rams....
This is my male....very pretty fish !
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ashdavid said:
I just realized that people might mistaken me for saying parrot cichlid with the blood parrot . I am talking of the rare parrot cichlid(Hoplarchus psittacus )
Jmo I would never in a million years buy a blood parot or flower horn.
http://www.cichlidae.com/articles/a067.php
not nig on SA''s, so whats all the hype with flower horns. In Cali most the asian owned LFS sell them, but for like $1000 and more. Whats the deal with them that makes them so prized because I even notice petsmart sells them?
xhibition said:
They are supposed to bring luck or something and thats why they comand such a price. They were originaly developed in asia and people are very superstitious, so when that company said that they will bring good fortune and wealth obviously people believed it and it took off, people would pay just about anything to get one and so the prices rise and rise. They were only developed to make money. There have been other hybrids that have been developed for the same reason but never became popular, eg red texas .
Jmo opinion they are nothing special and I would prefer a trimac any day of the week.
The thing that most people don't know about FA's is that because of all the cross breeding and inbreeding to get those colors only about 1/3 of the fry will have those colors.
The rest end up as a boring aggressive large beige fish.
If you ever wanted to buy one it would be better to pick up an adult or mid aged juvie that already had it's colors. Nothing like paying big bucks for a beige fish.
I once heard a story. I can't confirm if its completely true or not.
There is a problem with the flowerhorn taking over certain water ways in parts of Asia. It turns out because only 1/3 of the fish get the color that the breeders are looking for they have to get rid of the rest.
Apparently it is bad luck to kill a FA so the breeders just release the rejects into the local waterways. Well Adding one foreign aggressive predator into an ecosystem is not a good thing but imagine what happens when you add thousands.
It's the snakeheads in Madagascar all over again. EEECCCHHHH.....
The rest end up as a boring aggressive large beige fish.
If you ever wanted to buy one it would be better to pick up an adult or mid aged juvie that already had it's colors. Nothing like paying big bucks for a beige fish.
I once heard a story. I can't confirm if its completely true or not.
There is a problem with the flowerhorn taking over certain water ways in parts of Asia. It turns out because only 1/3 of the fish get the color that the breeders are looking for they have to get rid of the rest.
Apparently it is bad luck to kill a FA so the breeders just release the rejects into the local waterways. Well Adding one foreign aggressive predator into an ecosystem is not a good thing but imagine what happens when you add thousands.
It's the snakeheads in Madagascar all over again. EEECCCHHHH.....
WOW. What are these flower horns hybrid with? I'll never look at these fish the same. We are currently having a problem in one of our lakes out here because they keep fishing tons of illegal SA gars. Don't know much about SA cichlids, had no idea flower horns are hybrids. They're ugly as hell.
